Safety and Health Manager - Ashland Inc

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Safety and Health manager to join our Ashland Inc., ISP Technologies, Inc. business at our Texas City, Texas manufacturing plant. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the safety and health function. This position will report to the site manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Possesses a thorough knowledge of and ability to effectively utilize methods and tools to conduct risk assessments and process hazard analysis.  Exhibits ability to conduct root cause analyses, identify corrective actions, and utilize incident management systems to improve site and employee safety.
• Provides leadership and support to ensure the Health and Well-being of all employees.  Focuses on reducing/eliminating employee injuries, avoiding costs associated with employee injury, property and equipment damage, and business interruption by implementing, facilitating, and promoting Zero Incident Culture along with leading indicator programs.
• Leads, implements and manages all Federal, State, Local, and Ashland Safety, Health and Security regulatory requirements including all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) programs such as Process Safety Management (PSM), OSHA Training, Industrial Hygiene, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Hazard Communication, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection, OSHA Recordkeeping, High Hazard work (Confined Space Entry, Lockout Tag-out, Hot work), Hearing Conservation, Occupational Health and other programs including Responsible Care, Security Management and Insurance/Loss Prevention for the plant.
• Demonstrates skill in project management tools and methods to successfully manage and implement several projects and initiatives simultaneously.
• Possesses thorough knowledge of adult learning methods and able to identify, develop and facilitate Safety and Health related training materials and topics with site training manager.
• Communicates clearly and effectively through verbal and written messages appropriate to the audience. Delivers information in a formalized and/or group setting.  Able to interpret then translate complicated and/or technical information into a simplified format to be easily understood by all levels of the organization. 
• Holds working knowledge of current software systems, i.e. SAP, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). Skilled in utilizing database software programs and electronic project management tools.
• Persuades or convinces others not within the normal reporting relationship to support an idea, agenda, direction, or initiative by establishing credibility, using data and/or exercising other appropriate methods.
• Adheres to and practices an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times, acts in line with those values, rewards the right values and disapproves of others.  Consistently demonstrates and is regarded as having high integrity and trust among peers, managers, and employees, is widely trusted and seen as a direct, truthful individual, keeps confidences and admits mistakes, doesn't misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
• Demonstrates a problem-solving approach when faced with challenging or difficult situations, uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probes all fruitful sources for answers, can see hidden problems, excels at honest analysis, looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
• Builds and sustains working relationships with people of diverse cultural identities, styles and functional responsibilities on all levels including an hourly workforce.
• Able to define objectives and processes, then integrate into the organization, understands how to separate, and combine tasks into efficient workflow, knows what to measure and how to measure it, can see opportunities for synergy and integration, can simplify complex processes.
• Has ability to plan, prioritize and organize work effectively to produce measurable results. Defines objectives and integrates into the organization quickly and smoothly, along with the ability to perform both long- and short-term planning.
• Provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others, lets people know where they stand, faces up to people problems on any person or situation quickly and directly, is not afraid to take negative action, when necessary, able to challenge the status quo, open minded to new ideas.
• Builds and develops an effective team by modeling a team orientation seeking to build better solutions by leveraging diversity of thought, experience and capability in team composition and resulting decisions. Blends people into teams when needed, creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team, fosters open dialogue, defines success in terms of the whole team, creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
• Makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment, sought out by others for advice and solutions, capable of making and enacting difficult decisions.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health engineering, Industrial Safety and Hygiene or other related technical degree (i.e., Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc.)
• Minimum of seven years of industrial safety and regulatory experience in a manufacturing or distribution setting of which two years must be in the oil or chemical industry.  
• Always demonstrates responsible and ethical behavior.
• Benefits the Company to drive greater value through understanding the business, making complex decisions, and creating the new and different.

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Designation as a Certified Safety Professional through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.
• Prior Emergency response team experience. 
• Prior experience working with regulatory agencies. 
• Six Sigma certification.

Perks of working at Ashland:

• Team recognition rewards, and monetary incentives based on performance.
• Comprehensive Benefit package, Medical, Dental and Vision starting on Day 1 for you AND your family.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Position is based at the Texas City manufacturing plant.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.
 
At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.
 
Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.
 
Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE:  We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.